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Been playing around with ideas for mass kroot for a while, then this monstrosity was formed:

Ethereal, 2x marker drones 74

Riptide, Ion accelerator, TL Fusion blaster, Interceptor 190

(20) Kroot, 20x sniper rounds, 1x Hound 145
(20) Kroot, 20x sniper rounds, 1x Hound 145
(20) Kroot, 20x sniper rounds, 1x Hound 145
(20) Kroot, 20x sniper rounds, 1x Hound 145
(20) Kroot, 20x sniper rounds, 1x Hound 145

(7) Marker drones 98

(3) Broadsides, HYMP, SMS 195
(3) Broadsides, HYMP, SMS 195
Sniper Drone team, 3x Firesight marksmen, 3x sniper drones 84


Farseer, Runes of Witnessing + Warding, Doom 105

(3) Guardian jetbikes 66
(3) Guardian jetbikes 66

ADL 50

= 1848

So, in general, you stick your ADL in midfield, and infiltrate your Kroot up behind it. 100 snipers + Doom + markerlight support is just frigging disgusting.

The Broadsides are there mainly to kill Flyers/transports, your Kroot are your main anti-infantry/MC. The Riptide brings a little bit of insurance in case someone brings a Land raider (don't see them very often at tournaments here in Finland) and brings a scary blast as well, to force your opponent to spread out.

If your opponent wants to bring his guys close to play, you pop the Ethereal's megadoubletap power, run your kroot forward and spew out 60 shots per unit.

Barrage weapons and torrent flamers are nasty against this, spread out to minimize hits, and prioritize taking them out.

One thing I'm kinda going back and forth on is the markerlight setups. I'm pretty happy with them now, as this way against single large squads I can first pop the Firesight marksmens' markers, then up the Drones to bs5, pop them all on them, then with the Ethereal and his drones in a kroot squad I can get about 3 squads to bs5 against a single target if needed. Comments and advice on the markerlights would be very appreciated, another thing I've been thinking about is possibly swapping in a min pathfinder squad that you can join the Farseer to, so against an unprepared opponent you can scout forward 6" and get a t1 Doom off.

Anyways, thanks for reading, and comments and criticisms welcome, as always =)

I suppose your posts brings up an interesting question I hadn't considered before... Does taking sniper rounds with the Kroot force them to only shoot sniper or do they get to choose? Your wording suggests that they can choose which rounds to use each shooting phase whereas I had assumed they have to stick with one. One point for the option of choosing feels utterly over-powered so I assumed you would have to choose.

As far as I can tell you can choose between regular/Sniper ammo whenever you fire, like choosing between frag/krak when firing a missile launcher. The reference section at the back of the dex which lists weapon profiles says: "Weapons with two profiles have the free choice of which to use, with a few exceptions... and Kroot rifle's Sniper rounds (which can only be used if purchased)." RAW I'm fairly sure it means if you buy sniper rounds, you can swap between regular/sniper freely when shooting.

Swapped the list around a bit:

Ethereal, 2x marker drones 74
Shadowsun, 1x command link drone 155

Riptide, Ion accelerator, TL Fusion blaster, Interceptor 190

(20) Kroot, 20x sniper rounds, 1x Hound 145
(20) Kroot, 20x sniper rounds, 1x Hound 145
(20) Kroot, 20x sniper rounds, 1x Hound 145
(10) Kroot, 10x sniper rounds, 1x Hound 75
(10) Kroot, 10x sniper rounds, 1x Hound 75

(10) Pathfinders 110
(5) Pathfinders 55


(3) Broadsides, HYMP, SMS 195
(3) Broadsides, HYMP, SMS 195

Farseer, Runes of Witnessing + Warding, Doom 105

(3) Guardian jetbikes 66
(3) Guardian jetbikes 66

ADL 50

= 1849

Picked up Shadowsun as she's just a great utility piece, and swapped the markerlights around a bit.